The finalists for the $50,000 prize are Dennis Bock for his novel Going Home Again; Lynn Coady for her short story collection Hellgoing; Craig Davidson for his novel Cataract City; Lisa Moore for her novel Caught; and Dan Vyleta for his novel The Crooked Maid

Forget about 2012. That’s ancient history, the distant past. Finished. No one reads books that were published in 2012 anymore. 2013 — that’s where it’s at. All the new books are 2013. That’s what the cool kids are reading. Here are 13 books coming out in the ﬁrst half of 2013 that we cannot wait to read. We can’t promise they’re good; we’re expecting them to be excellent